Cancer Bats The Spark That Moves Bat Skull Records/New Damage Records In celebration of 4/20 or in anticipation of Record Store Day, Cancer Bats have released their sixth [...]
Donovan Woods Both Ways Meant Well Both Ways is the fifth album from Canadian singer-songwriter Donovan Woods. It is a strong collection of songs that defies genre labels. For [...]
Drinks Hippo Lite Birth Records Hippo Lite is one of the most unique albums released this year. Simply put, it is brilliant. Drinks is made up of Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley (White [...]
Strvngers Amor/Noir Negative Gain Strvngers is a Canadian duo, and Armor/Noir is their third album, and perhaps their most accessible. Hailing from small town Alberta, Maria Joaquin [...]
Hyways Hyways Union Zero Hyways hail from Seattle, and Hyways is their self-titled debut album. The band consists of Mike Giacolino (lead vocal, guitar, harmonica), Nils Petersen (bass, [...]
Thievery Corporation Treasures From The Temple ESL Music American duo Rob Garza and Eric Hilton have been making genre-defying music as Thievery Corporation [...]
A Perfect Circle Eat The Elephant BMG The world has undergone almost immeasurable changes in the years between the releases of A Perfect Circle’s third and fourth [...]
Lord Huron Vide Noir Republic Records Lord Huron not only survived “dreaded second album syndrome”, they seemed to have perfected their sound with their sophomore release, taking the [...]
Bishop Briggs Church Of Scars Island Records An album three years in the making, Church of Scars is the official full-length debut of Scottish-born, Los Angeles-based singer [...]
ANMLPLNET Fall Asleep Ba Da Bing Records If you’ve ever wondered what it feels like to engage in coitus with a cloud, this album was made for you. If not, there’s still some [...]
The Who Live At The Fillmore East 1968 Geffen/Universal Music It seems an odd task, writing a review for a recording which has existed (as a bootleg) for almost [...]
Say Sue Me Where We Were Together Damnably There is something decidedly timeless about surf-rock, especially when it melds with the classic washed-out vocals of its [...]
Rival Consoles Persona Erased Tapes Records The true wonder of this album is that you learn everything that you need to know about the following 12 tracks in the first minute of [...]
The Damned Evil Spirits Search And Destroy/Spinefarm Records The Damned formed in London in 1976 and many would argue they released the first U.K. ‘punk’ single that year, “New [...]
John Prine The Tree Of Forgiveness Oh Boy/Sony Music A new album from John Prine is always reason to celebrate, but an album in which he wrote or co-wrote all the songs [...]
Rebel ACA & The French Monkey Wrench Sunday’s Cool Buttercuts Records Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewitt take note, this is a duo that you need to work [...]
Maff Melaniña Independent Maff is a quartet, originally from and still based in Chile. Melaniña is their second release, following their debut album Maff (2014). The band consists of [...]
Daniel Avery Song For Alpha Mute Records/Phantasy Sound It is very clear that in the five years that have passed since Daniel Avery’s critically-acclaimed album debut Drone [...]
